#elizabeth-street-garden

#elizabeth-street-garden

It's another twist in a saga so twisty that it's now strange to remember Adams had initially backed the idea of turning the city lot turned sculpture garden into apartments for seniors. But he flip-flopped in June, after bringing on Randy Mastro as his deputy mayor, and designated the garden as city parkland in November - a move that seemed designed to stop Zohran Mamdani from reviving the housing project on the site and secure Adams's legacy as the savior of the celebrity-approved green space.